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Comment by polote | Hacker News Reader

Seems like everyone going on HN now. The site is so slow

Interesting cascade effect of sites going down! I wonder where people will go next to check if HN is down?

Also wondering if this is perhaps the fastest upvoted HN post ever? 8 mins -> ~350 votes, 15 mins -> ~750 votes. I wonder if @dang could chime in with some stats?

Update: looks like it hit 1000 upvotes in ~25 mins!

Update: 1500 in ~40 mins

Update: 2000 in ~1 hour 20 mins (used the HN API for the timestamp)

The recent youtube-dl takedown had a similar number of votes but still slightly slower, I think. I think it was >500 in 30min and >1000 in 60min if I remember correctly.

reddit, nanog, 4chan, twitter — pick your poison

"poison" is a particularly apt description for all of the above

Some politics topics have shot up pretty quickly in the past but user and/or mod flags send them back to page 2 about as quickly.

Funny this post is already #7. Are we seeing many reports again?

Stats right now: 1985 points | 1 hour ago | 597 comments

Maybe, could have just seen a dropoff in upvotes once the issue was resolved also

> I wonder where people will go next to check if HN is down?

Probably: https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

HN was having problem showing anything for the past 10 min or so. I was going to ask if HN was down, then I saw this.

HN uses Firebase, maybe that is the reason.

TIL. What for?

The very least public APIs are exposed via firebase.

https://github.com/HackerNews/API

Does this site also use Firebase, or do they only feed Firebase's Database so that other developers can build upon it?

Any source for that? Last information I have is that it's written in Arc Lisp and uses files rather than a database for storage.

There is a public API on Firebase, but AFAIR it's just a mirror rather than the main storage.

Accessing the site anonymously fixes it (logged sessions are not chaced)

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